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INFINITY

NAME
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SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
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HISTORY
SEE ALSO

NAME

INFINITY, NAN, HUGE_VAL, HUGE_VALF, HUGE_VALL - floating-point constants

LIBRARY

Math library ( libm )

SYNOPSIS

#define _ISOC99_SOURCE /* See feature_test_macros(7) */
#include <math.h>

INFINITY

NAN

HUGE_VAL
HUGE_VALF
HUGE_VALL

DESCRIPTION

The macro INFINITY expands to a float constant representing positive infinity.

The macro NAN expands to a float constant representing a quiet NaN (when supported). A quiet NaN is a NaN ("not-a-number") that does not raise exceptions when it is used in arithmetic. The opposite is a signaling NaN. See IEC 60559:1989.

The macros HUGE_VAL , HUGE_VALF , HUGE_VALL expand to constants of types double , float , and long double , respectively, that represent a large positive value, possibly positive infinity.

STANDARDS

C11.

HISTORY

C99.

On a glibc system, the macro HUGE_VAL is always available. Availability of the NAN macro can be tested using #ifdef NAN , and similarly for INFINITY , HUGE_VALF , HUGE_VALL . They will be defined by <math.h> if _ISOC99_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is defined, or __STDC_VERSION__ is defined and has a value not less than 199901L.

SEE ALSO

fpclassify (3), math_error (7)